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Ciudad Rebelde

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El Alto: Bolivia’s “young city” is inventing the new Bolivia

El Alto, a cliff-top city of a million people living 4,150m above sea level, showcases the complexities of modern Bolivia. Here, campesinos, salesmen and fortune tellers share a dusty sprawl of half-built brick towers, futuristic cable cars, gaudy pleasure palaces and ramshackle markets with self-taught artists, political radicals and technological experts. The resulting tensionshave already toppled one government, are defying another, and will define the future of a countrythat was once a byword for poverty and isolation.

Text byLaurence Blair

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